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Buffalo Nichols

Fri, 10 Jan

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New Gate Arts & Culture Centre

He tells a sad story but one enlivened by his skills as a guitarist, his expressiveness as a singer and his insights as a lyricist. In Partnership with Music Capital

Buffalo Nichols
Buffalo Nichols

Time & Location

10 Jan 2025, 19:30 – 21:30

New Gate Arts & Culture Centre, 2-4 Kennedy St, Londonderry BT48 6RF, UK

About The Event

Nichols was born in Houston and raised in Milwaukee. At around 11 years old, he turned to guitar in order to, why else, avoid little league. “I didn’t like team sports, I just wanted to be by myself. So the most solitary thing I could do was play guitar,” Nichols recalls. “And once I started playing guitar, everything changed. That was the only thing I did.” He taught himself to play by emulating The Ramones, his favorite band at the time, on an acoustic guitar borrowed from his older sister– “It’s very punk to try to be like your big sister,” Nichols notes. After conquering all of Johnny Ramone’s riffs, he was hooked. “I started taking it as a challenge: as soon as I could play all the Ramones songs, I started playing Green Day.” Heavy metal soon followed. “I was getting angrier, so the music was getting more aggressive…



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